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Eric Cederberg Figurative Paintings

Swedish, 1897-1984
Eric Cederberg represents a subtle but no less significant strand of Nordic Surrealism. Working in the postwar period, he developed a Surrealist approach influenced by Magritte— calm, lucid, and rich in visual paradox. His paintings reveal a poetic logic at once restrained and unsettling, emblematic of a “smooth Surrealism” unique to the North. Though he worked outside formal Surrealist circles, his contribution demonstrates how deeply Surrealist thought penetrated Nordic art by the mid-20th century, reshaping everyday scenes into sites of symbolic transformation. - Biography by Nagas, New York
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Artist: Eric Cederberg
Beach with pearls, Eric Cederberg, Oil on panel, Scandinavia Surrealism, 1950 c.
Beach with pearls, Eric Cederberg, Oil on panel, Scandinavia Surrealism, 1950 c.

Beach with pearls, Eric Cederberg, Oil on panel, Scandinavia Surrealism, 1950 c.

By Eric Cederberg

Located in New York, NY

Eric Cederberg (1897-1984) Beach with pearls, ca. 1950 Oil on panel 9 1/10 × 14 3/5 in l 23 × 37 cm Frame included: 13 3/4 x 19 1/3 l 35 x 49 cm Signed lower left Exhibition history...

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1950s Surrealist Eric Cederberg Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

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